The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-17
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS,

- A oSs5ha SAAOAUAy'
Gov. Church and Auditor Ward pur-
chased residences in Bismarck.
The investigation ofthe Yankton in.
sane asylum will befollowcd by a close
examination OF other public institu.
tions in Dakota.
A. w. Bunan, OF Wilmot, commit
ted suicide by hanging on account Of
ehe lack OF friends.
Lizzie, the two-year-oId daughter Of
Daniel Creerer, seven miles west OF
Larimore, was drowned in well.
James Gleasner and Miss Elsie
Brown were struck by lightning at
jamestown, the former dying from
the effects. .
Gov. Church mas pardoned Rev. H.
D. Schaefer, the Baptist minister from
Mandan, who was convicted of as
5ault with a dangerous weapon and
sentenced to the Bismarck peniten-
tiary for six months.
At Gary, Julius Lather was adiudg-
ed insane, and taken to the Yankton
asylum. He had been Tilted by a
young lady.
At Lisbon, A. II. Laughlin has sold
the Standing Rock farm he purchased
recantly of C. B. Wisner for $1,000,
to Abe Rundell, OF Plymouth, Ransom
county for $4,000. ~
Minot is the county seat of Ward
county.
A cyclone thirty rods in diameter
swept the country thirty miles north
OF jamestown, doing considerable
damage to crops and horses, and drop
ping large hailstones.
The managers Of the Deuel. County
Agricultural society, at their annual
meeting at Gary decided to hold the
fair on Sept. IA, Is, and 16.
At Fargo, the Knights of Labor
have organized cooperative COM
pany with 5000 capital to purchase
the machinery OF an old planning mill
and conduct q sash. door and blind
factory.
At Yankton, the Compressed Brick
and Saw Mill company have been
sinking an artesian we'll. and at a
depth OF 575 feet an immense flow Of
water, estimated at 1000 gallons per
minute, was struck. The water will
be used to operate the company ma
chinery and run the city electrict light
dynamo. Yankton has now q dozen
artesian wells, and this is the second
largest. The city we'll fogs 1,50o
gallons per minute.
Hans Gausen, alias Charles Rubert
Knutson, was arrested at Siou y
Falls for bigamy.
Thirteen women hold the Office Of
county superintendent OF schools in
Dakota: Miss EAie BENJAMIN. Clark
county; Mrs. Belle Samson, Barnes
county; Miss Cora NJ. Shober, Beadle
county; Miss Alice ]. Sanborn, Brule
county; Miss Susan Penny, Stanton
county; Mrs. E. G. Am1es. Butte county;
Mrs. FL. ]. Dennis, Fall River county;
Mrs. A. III. Rose. Faukle county; Mrs.
l.. III. Franks, La Moure county; Mrs.
Clara Rogers, Lawrence county; Mrs.
NJ. Cameron, McHenry county; Mrs.
+. r Nichols, Potter county, and Miss
Clara Penebacksr, Ransom county.
The board Of regents let thecontract
to erect the new college building at
Brookings to Fisher & Co, Of Mime
apolis, and purchased quarter-sec-
tion OF land, which gives a farm OF
GAO acres
The ten persons who attended the
murderer Nelson's funeral at Huron,
were very badly scared by the ap-
proach OF cyclone. 1t came directly
toward the house, when all took to
their teams and started for safety,
leaving NELSON'S corpse alone. They
returned when the cloud changed its
course and disappeared.
A contract was let to A. E. Beal,
Thomas Fortune and Nathaniel skel-
ton OF Bismark for grading that sec
tion OF the Aberdeen, Bismark &
Northwestern railway extending from
Napoleon, Logan county, to Bismark
and the steamboat landing adistance
of fifty-seven miles. The work must
begin on or before June 10th, and be
completed by Oct. / next.
The following officers were elected
ut Huron by the grand commandery,
Knights Templar, Of Dakota; Grand
commander. M. A. Brewer, OF Fargo;
deputy grand commander. Joseph A.
r~,Ioin III H.,rnr,. Grand ceneralisaino.